beat out

verb

beat out; beaten out or beat out; beating out; beats out

transitive verb

1

: to make or perform by or as if by beating

2

: to mark or accompany by beating

3

: to turn (a routine ground ball or a bunt) into a hit in baseball by fast running to first base

Examples of beat out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With over 257,000 monthly searches, California’s scenic Highway 1 beats out Route 66 and Big Sur. —Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2025

First-quarter superlatives Biggest surprise — Indiana (Daniel) Jones The Giants castoff signed with the Indianapolis Colts in the offseason and wound up beating out Anthony Richardson for the starting quarterback job. —Mike Jones, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

Back in 2024, Paramore beat out titans Metallica, Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age to win Best Rock Album for This Is Why. —Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

Hollis beat out Pope and decided to take Vince Panaro to the Final 2 with her. —Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 29 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1588, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for beat out

• about
• bailout
• blackout
• blowout
• breakout
• burnout
• buyout
• checkout
• closeout
• cutout
• devout
• dropout